Logic and Magic

LOGIC AND MAGIC Those there are who believe shadow is mystery: They prefer wondering about life And probing the secrets of joy and strife With palm-lines deteriorating or amelioratory. I deal only in logic, not magic signs. Shadows are the absence of light; Lines, any lines, are the paths taken by light: Thus shadows are opposed to lines. These two reveal nothing curious. They merely show the presence or absence Of energy in its essence. All the rest is knowledge spurious. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Entered in ^Rick Parise’s Contest “Shadows and Lines”